by Robin Bloor | Nov 17, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Tryptich Panel With The Crucifixtion Stabat Mater (The Sorrowful Mother Stood) Emerging from the depths of the 13th century, the Stabat Mater stands as a poignant testament to the anguish endured by Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, during his crucifixion. Its...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 17, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Perseus with Medusa;s Severed Head A while ago, the group I belong to sat in front of a whiteboard and listed all the words for negative emotions that we could think of in the space of an hour. The list was long: 114 words. At a subsequent meeting, we attempted a list...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 17, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Hamolinadir at the Rostrum Hamolinadir’s speech about “the instability” of human reason is one of the great speeches of The Tales. It read as follows: “My friend, Hamolinadir, also had to report about some topic and therefore drew a lot; and it fell...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 17, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #28 November 2023 “Question yourself always. Be QUESTION!.” ~ Gurdjieff Hi Are you concerned about global warming? The records tell us that the Earth’s average temperature has increased by approximately 1 degree Celsius since the...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 10, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #27 October 2023 “Common sense mellowed and experienced is wisdom; and wisdom in its ripeness is beauty.”~ Orage “Hi How identified are you with the place where you were born? Does it figure in your personality? Do you have a strong...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 9, 2023 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Full Moon: A Time For Watering The Earth Waters the Moon The suggestion that “life on Earth feeds the Moon” must have been bewildering to many people who joined Ouspensky and Gurdjieff in the early years of the Work. At that time, very little was known...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 9, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Self and the Mask This is the second part of the extract from Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’. Click link for Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4. The “I” in a real man represents that totality of the functioning of his...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 8, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Madame Ouspensky It’s worth acquiring a recently released book entitled Saturday Evenings at Mendham: Conversation with Madame Ouspensky. Madame Ouspensky (1878-1961), was born Sophie Grigorievna Volochine in Kharkoff, Ukraine. She met Gurdjieff in St....
by Robin Bloor | Oct 5, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A World on Fire The world is on fire!And are you laughing?You are deep in the dark.Will you not ask for light? For behold your body—A painted puppet, a toy,Jointed and sick and full of falseimaginings,A shadow that shifts and fades. How frail it is!Frail and...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 4, 2023 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
A Galapagos Lizard The Darwinian Delusion There are a multitude of reasons to disregard Darwin’s much-feted theory of evolution. But let’s not entirely condemn the scientific efforts that brought it to the fore and adopted it as dogma. Much useful work was...